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discussed in biography

...elter (“In Old Age”), which he published in the Warsaw
Literarishe bleter under a pseudonym. His first novel,
Der Sotn in Goray (
Satan in Goray), was published in installments in Poland shortly before he immigrated to the United States in 1935.

Yiddish literature

...(Yitskhak Bashevis) to distinguish himself from his brother I.J. Singer. His best novel is perhaps the early, experimental
Der sotn in Goray (1935;
Satan in Goray), which begins as an historical novel. As it recreates the aura following the massacres instigated by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648, it refers to the false messiah Shabbetai Tzevi....